Gawker tweets that it’s “the best hatchet job of 2012”. According to @The
Morning News, Salman Rushdie “gets thoroughly ripped for his new memoir’s
smallness of viewpoint”. But for my money, it’s tweeter Tom McGeveran,
editor of Capital New York, who’s on the money: “Zoë Heller is
totally killing it at NYRB these days — first Naomi Wolf, now
Rushdie.”

The piece in question is Heller’s review of Rushdie’s memoir Joseph
Anton, published in The New York Review of Books in their
December 20 issue. It isn’t, as it happens, a hatchet job, though perhaps
that’s a handy way to signal